Title
Feature-Based Derivation Of Drainage Networks
Abstract
An approach to the automatic derivation of drainage networks from digital elevation models (DEMs) using regular-gridded data is described. Features such as depressions and plateaus, on which drainage directions are undefined, are handled as entities in their own right, and are identified using operations on connected regions. Such an approach is a departure from the traditional pixel-based (local) approaches and facilitates the construction of a consistent drainage network. A single or multiple flow drainage model can be implemented. Accumulation and watershed delineation of the drainage network are performed by recursively climbing ascending paths from sink points. The algorithms are significantly faster than those of other approaches and operate within an efficient buffering scheme which facilitates handling of large DEMs and multiple data sources.
Year
DOI
Venue
1993
10.1080/02693799308901956
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Keywords
Field
DocType
digital elevation model
Drainage,Data mining,Multiple data,Computer science,Flow (psychology),Digital elevation model,Watershed,Pixel,Feature based,Recursion
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
7
3
0269-3798
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
1.37
3
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
J. E. Mccormack191.37
Mark Gahegan257155.38
Steven A. Roberts3193.69
J. Hogg46715.52
B. S. Hoyle5122.12